When is it cheaper to rent a Trailer by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $90 day rate would be $540, but the weekly rate caps it at $450.

When is it cheaper to rent a Trailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 24. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,600 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

Break-even duration

Equipment rents on three rates — a day rate, a week rate and a 28-day rate — and the cheapest one changes as the job runs long. This finds the two days where it changes, on a real listing’s real published rates.

Trailer

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Jeff Jones

Day: $90
Week: $450
28 days: $1,600

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $540. On the week rate it is $450.

Weekly stops winning on

day 24

24 days at the day rate would be $2,160. On the 28-day rate it is $1,600.

The working

Whole weeks bill at the week rate; the leftover days bill at the day rate but never add up to more than one extra week; and a whole 28-day cycle never costs more than the 28-day rate. That is the rule, applied one day at a time.

Rental price by duration for Trailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$90	$90	—	day
2	$180	$180	—	day
3	$270	$270	—	day
4	$360	$360	—	day
5	$450	$450	—	day
6	$540	$450	you save $90	week
7	$630	$450	you save $180	week
8	$720	$540	you save $180	week
9	$810	$630	you save $180	week
10	$900	$720	you save $180	week
11	$990	$810	you save $180	week
12	$1,080	$900	you save $180	week
13	$1,170	$900	you save $270	week
14	$1,260	$900	you save $360	week
15	$1,350	$990	you save $360	week
16	$1,440	$1,080	you save $360	week
17	$1,530	$1,170	you save $360	week
18	$1,620	$1,260	you save $360	week
19	$1,710	$1,350	you save $360	week
20	$1,800	$1,350	you save $450	week
21	$1,890	$1,350	you save $540	week
22	$1,980	$1,440	you save $540	week
23	$2,070	$1,530	you save $540	week
24	$2,160	$1,600	you save $560	28-day
25	$2,250	$1,600	you save $650	28-day
26	$2,340	$1,600	you save $740	28-day
27	$2,430	$1,600	you save $830	28-day
28	$2,520	$1,600	you save $920	28-day
29	$2,610	$1,690	you save $920	day
30	$2,700	$1,780	you save $920	day
31	$2,790	$1,870	you save $920	day
32	$2,880	$1,960	you save $920	day
33	$2,970	$2,050	you save $920	day
34	$3,060	$2,050	you save $1,010	week
35	$3,150	$2,050	you save $1,100	week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 24 days: $1,600
Rental protection (RPP): $240
Service fee: $160
Estimated total: $2,000

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The numbers come from one operator’s published rates, so the tool needs to know whose.

Where these numbers come from

The rates are the operator’s own, read live from their listing. The arithmetic is the same best-price billing engine that produces 2Quip invoices — not a second copy written for this page — run on the industry-standard terms: a 28-day cycle, whole weeks at the week rate, leftover days at the day rate capped at one more week.

An operator can agree different terms on an individual rental, and a long rental bills per 28-day cycle rather than in one lump. So treat this as what the rate card says, and the operator’s quote as what you are agreeing to.